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Canada Goose

(Branta canadensis)
German name(s): "Kanadagans"
Size: 75-110 cm; wing span 1.25-1.85 m
Weight: 2.6-6.5 kg (male); 2.4-5.5 kg (female)

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Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Canada Goose at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species

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Sightings

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Photos

Race "parvipes"(?)

ADULT

Sex unknown

Canada Geese on the banks of the river Rhine (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[Walluf, Hessen, Germany, January 2018]

Family of Canada Geese on the banks of the river Rhine, with an adult seen in a near-frontal view in the foreground
(photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[Walluf, Hessen, Germany, January 2013]

Lateral view of a Canada Goose (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Hyde Park, London, England, September 2019]

Lateral view of a Canada Goose (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[Walluf, Hessen, Germany, January 2013]

Lateral view of a Canada Goose (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[River Rhine, between Walluf and Schierstein, Hessen, Germany, April 2019]

Lateral view of a Canada Goose, here seen preening (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[River Rhine, between Walluf and Schierstein, Hessen, Germany, April 2019]

Lateral view of a Canada Goose (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Hyde Park, London, England, September 2019]

Near-dorsal view of a Canada Goose, upright stance

Near-dorsal view of a Canada Goose, hunched stance

Family of Canada Geese (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[Walluf, Hessen, Germany, January 2013]

Comparison of a Canada Geese with two Greylag Geese (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[River Rhine, near Eltville, Germany, May 2022]

IMMATURE/JUVENILE

Close-up lateral view of Canada Goslings (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[Walluf, Hessen, Germany, January 2013]

Adult Canada Goose with a batch of goslings (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[Walluf, Hessen, Germany, May 2018]

Close-up lateral view of a Canada Gosling (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[Walluf, Hessen, Germany, May 2018]

Behaviour

Canada Geese can live in areas where the ground freezes over, but they will leave if water surfaces freeze over
(photo courtesy of C. Pears)
[Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District, England, UK, January 2011]

Canada Geese swimming in single file (photo courtesy of C. Pears)
[River Thames at Moulsford, South Oxfordshire, England, UK, December 2014]

Food, Diet

Canada Goose with goslings feeding on pieces of an aquatic plant (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[River Rhine, between Walluf and Eltville, Germany, May 2022]

Canada Goose gosling feeding on grass (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[River Rhine, between Walluf and Eltville, Germany, May 2022]

Ohhh, yum, daisies! (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[River Rhine, between Walluf and Eltville, Germany, May 2022]

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